Re: gnome-recent, ready to rock

[James Willcox <jwillcox cs indiana edu>]

On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 14:00, George wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:01:16PM -0600, Chema Celorio wrote:
> > On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 19:38, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:46:05AM -0600, Chema wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I know this is not the best time to propose adding API into libgnomeui
> > > > but this is an offer you are not going to be able to resist ;-).
> > > > 
> > > > gnome-recent provides with functionality for apps to handle the recently
> > > > opened files.
> > > 
> > > Sounds nice, but now does not seem like a good time to create new
> > > apis.  Would you be averse to putting it in GAL ?  That would give
> > > us a place to polish and buff things as applications start to use
> > > it.  Freezing an api that has not been kicked around seems like a
> > > recipe for breakage.
> > 
> > Yeah, i think you are all correct. We should put it in a non-mature
> > library. Gal sounds like a great place to put it, if the gal maintainers
> > are interested. Too bad that it does not yet work with gnome 2.0 ;-).
> 
> Things can also go into gnome-desktop library in gnome-core, since that's
> another place for immature desktop like widgets for inclusion into libgnome* at
> some point.  And it works with gnome2 :)
> 
> George

I think the plan right now is to throw it into a couple of gnome2 apps
(gedit2, and maybe glade2) and see how that goes.  It would help a lot
of people would start using this and tell me what needs.  For instance,
I have no idea how to get it to work with BonoboUI.  Anyways, after that
maybe it could go into gnome-desktop or something.

James